ARTIST JOURNAL | Notes from the studio
Inspiration, new work, and stories about life and travel.
Inspired by Travel: Paris, France
This is not a Paris Vacation Guide. It’s a peek into what I notice and how I see. It’s been three months since we visited Paris. I keep hoping that I’ll come up with some clever organized way to share everything about my trip, but I’m tired of...
The Monochromatic Collection at Casa di LaValle
Collaborations stretch my creativity in such great, unexpected ways. When Cassandra and I first discussed the 2024 Monochromatic Collection for Casa di LaValle I was a bit apprehensive. While the style referenced some of my earlier geometric...
Partner Spotlight: LOOK Walls & Interiors
I’m excited to share my latest interior design collaboration — wall coverings to the trade with Dallas, Texas based LOOK Walls & Interiors. I was introduced to owner Lindsay White through one of my art collectors who happens to be a sales...
Inspired by Travel: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
We visited Puerto Vallarta in February 2024 to escape the Pacific Northwest winter rain for a few days and to do our in-person interview for the Global Entry travel program. We’re hoping for more international travel in our future — France is...
Collection: Destination Ongoing at Casa di LaValle in Seattle
Photo Credit: Casa di LaValle Ceramics by Salto WorkshopDestination Ongoing has already been shared in my newsletter (sign up here) and on Instagram, but I wanted to share my latest painting collection in an official blog post as well. As of today...
My California | Three New Paintings and Lifelong Inspiration
Alive With BeginningI’m obsessed with the plant life in Southern California. I even unintentionally had a bedroom with a palm tree beach mural when I was in high school. It wasn’t Southern California, probably French Polynesia or another island...
Art Inspired by Travel: Central California Coast | Santa Cruz, Davenport, Pescadero, San Gregorio
At the end of April — early May I got an opportunity to visit a friend of mine that I’ve known since college. We met in Louisiana and both ended up finding home on the West Coast. She’s been living in the Bay Area while I’ve shuttled between...
Morning Reading — Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd
A Quiet MorningI usually start every morning by reading part of a nonfiction book while I have coffee. Sometimes it’s a book that I’ve already read and am in the process of revisiting for fresh insight. Maybe it’s an art book and I'm studying color...
New Art, A Trip To Los Angeles, And How My Brain Was Tricking Me
Earlier this year I had an epiphany, or an “aha moment” as our friend Oprah might say. I realized that I had been holding myself back from things that I want. Like, without even KNOWING it. I’d become so used to my daily routines that I trapped...